A year or so ago I took up racquetball and found I have a natural affinity for it. I have pretty quick reflexes, I don’t mind diving for a ball, I play really intensely, and I’m left-handed.
I joined the racquetball tournament at the local health club, and was appalled that the standings were sent out once a week as an Excel spreadsheet attachment. Since I was just making the leap into internet programming from application programming, I volunteered to write a site for free in Ruby on Rails just for the experience.
It’s turned out great, and each season I’ve been spending a few hours on it to improve a couple of small things. The original code was pretty embarrassing, since I was just blindly trying to find my way. There is still lots of refactoring to do, but, it works, so there’s no hurry.
Tags: internet, racquetball, Sports